Mark-exhibiting device for tableware



May 15, 1928. 1,670,159

S. L. MAXON I MARK EXHIBITING DEVICE FOR TABLEWARE.

Filed Nov. 21, 1923 I IM $1113 7 W p ATTOI'RNEY 5 Patented May'l5, 1928. I

*s'AMUEL :nY'niv maxoiv', or on'i'srne vEw YORK, AssIeNoR 1T0 patina COMMUNITY,

" 1 "LIMITED; o'r-onninA, NEW YO K, a coaroaawroaornnw YORK;

. MARK-EXHIBITING nnvIoEFoR BEWA E. 1

, -,;Ap' 1.ieatio1ifi1ed1Noveir ber a1, 1923. se i rNoJeraoM. I

. This invention relates to a [device for ex ihibiti'ng lettering to I be Jused for marking silver and silver plated-ware.

1 Dealers in silver and silvercplated :ware areoften callednpon by their-customers to .mark the articles with a "letter, or mono- ,gram';-selected by'the customer. lnlmakinghis selection the customer'has before him the article to be marked- .a chart or sheet bearing different letters of the alphabet,in

difierent-types, and also specimens .ofmonograms. The marking is usually doneupon a certain part of the article and,-in selecting the style of type-or monogram, the customer endeavors to visualize the diflerent types or monograms thus shown him on that par.- ticular part of the article. This way of selecting the marking to be done is unsatisfactory because it results in loss of time for the dealer and customer, and the latter is often dissatisfiedwhen he finally sees the article marked in the way selected by him.

It is the object of the present invention to produce a device which will avoid all this; the device provided being such that the types or monograms are shown to the customer at the part of the article where the marking is to be done and in such a way that the cus-' tomer can at-once see how themarking of any of the types or monograms will actually appear upon the article when marked. The

customer can therefore make his selection of types or monograms more'quickly and with greater centainty of being satisfied with the 1 article when finally marked.

This result'is obtained by the provision of a device including a member comprising a pictorial or other reproduction of an article of silver or silver plated ware and a second member bearing different letters or monograms, the two members being relatively movable so as to exhibit the letters on the second member through an opening in the first member at the part thereof where the marking would appear on the article.

' In the accompanying drawing-- Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of device embodying the present invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same on the line 22.

Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and

Figures 4 and 5 are sections on an enlarged scale of a portion of the device.

As shown therein A represents a sheet of used in the marking of silverware;

;.At that point in .the shank or handle of upon a thin sheet A pasted to sheet A.

"- l eet Cis pivoted at c to sheet is, also, slit at two placeslin the arc of F bearinginitial lettersor other markings the pictured article, at which'fsuchj marl'rings are made ,onthe article itself thesheetA is provided with an -opening"D through which the markings on the segmental sheet may be exhibited :by turning said sheet.

For the purpose of properly exhibiting the markings at'this opening that is to say near the surface of the pictured article on" sheet A, the sheet A is cut away at E around the opening D to provide *a tongue E in line with the opening; The inner face of strip F is engaged by this tongue, which "therefore holds it against the sheet A at opening D and therefore causes the -mark-.

stiff material, calrdboard, bearing on ts-irontface a picture vB of a hat table ..ware article, as a spoon, which isprinted.

circle v so. asito provide an arc-shapedstrip ings thereon to be presented close to the surface of sheet Aat that opening.

Preferably the sheet A is backedhby another sheet H through'which pivot a of sheet C also passes and this sheet and sheet A are secured together and suitably separated from each other for the turning oi" sheet C by strips '1 between and pasted or otherwise secured tothe two sheets at their upper ends. I

What I claim is: I

1. A device for exhibiting markings to be applied to tableware and the like,-compris ing, a member "formed of still material hearing on its front face a picture of thearticle to be marked, and having a mark exhibiting opening atthe point insaid picture where v the marking will be done on the article itself, a second member behind the first memher and secured so as to be relatively movable thereto, said second, member having a pair of parallel slits forming a strip pro- 1 vided with marks to be exhibited. through the opening in the first member and means carried by the first member and disposed behind the opening therein for. traversing the slits and engaging" said strip to press it toward the opening in the first member.

2. A device for exhibiting markings to be applied to spoons and the like comprising integral tongue member carried by the cardboard member andtdisposed Witl1in;-the.opening therein, a segmental member pivoted to the cardboard member at--'tlie rear thereof and provided with two 'arcuate vslits forming fan arcuate strip provided with markings adapted to be exhibited through the mark exhibiting opening in the cardboard member, the tongue member projectin g throiigh the arcuate slits'in the segmental member so .as to engage the rear of the arcuatestrip the cardboard member, and means-formoving the segmental member relatlve'to' the cardboard member.

3.. A device foriexhibiting markings to be applied to metal tableware articles comprising a sheet-member formed of relatively stifi material and provided with an opening therein, a" second sheet member bearings reproduction o'f'an article to be marked and -harv-in-g a mark-exhibiting opening at the point insuch. reproduction where the mark- 0nd sheet member beingsecuredto the first 1 member andihaving: their openings substantially concentric,'a segmental member pivot.- a'lly seenred attliehrear of the first sheet member and provided with an arcu'ate strip bearing marks to be exhibited through;- the sheet member, and a tongiie proj'ecting from an opening in the reprodnctionon the second the first sheet member into the opening-therein and disposed behind the" pening in i the p I j'second'she'et memberythe arcuat'e stri-p-mov--- and press said strip toward the openlngin the second "sheet member, and meansf for moving the segmental member relative-tothe 7 sheet membeiar:v 7

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto vset H, '11 i ;W

AMU L-LYN 

